Salon.com > pop stars http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hundreds of Taylor Swift fan letters found in Nashville dumpster http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/hundreds_of_taylor_swift_fan_letters_found_in_nashville_dumpster/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/hundreds_of_taylor_swift_fan_letters_found_in_nashville_dumpster/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13226963 If you're a T-Swift fan, and you've sent her a note or a card or a crocheted Harry Styles voodoo doll at some point, we've got some bad news for you: She is never ever ever getting your letter. That's because hundreds of unopened letters addressed to the pop star were found in a Dumpster last weekend, a revelation that has Swift-ly ignited the fury of her devoted fans.

Nashville resident Kylee Francescan was throwing out some old newspapers when she discovered the letters in a dumpster outside a local elementary school. "I didn't know if they were stolen [or] discarded, so I threw them in a box," Francescan told Nashville's News 2 Investigates. "And I'm like, ‘Somebody needs to let Taylor know.'"

The letters, which I like to imagine were sealed with a combination of watermelon lip gloss, mall perfume, and a Lisa Frank panda sticker, were addressed to Taylor Swift International, a P.O. box in a strip mall a few miles outside of Nashville. News 2 reporter Andy Cordan delivered the letters to the address, where he was told that a representative from Swift's staff drops by to pick up fan mail.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/hundreds_of_taylor_swift_fan_letters_found_in_nashville_dumpster/feed/ 33 Ke$ha is getting her own reality TV show on MTV http://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/keha_is_getting_her_own_reality_tv_show_on_mtv/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/keha_is_getting_her_own_reality_tv_show_on_mtv/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13185926 Only months after its party hit "Jersey Shore" ended, MTV is bringing in a show about Ke$ha, the singer of party anthems like "TiK ToK" and "We R Who We R." "Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life," a reality show being touted as a "documentary series," will premiere in April and will chronicle her life for the past two years. The singer said that she is "revealing a more complete picture of what my life is really like," which is "not all glamorous, but it's all real." To prove just how real, MTV says that the footage was shot be Ke$ha's brother's, Lagan Sebert.

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